Improvement in lamp-shade holders



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LAMP SHADE-HOLDER.

Patented Dec. 12, 1876.

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THE GRAPHIC CONM UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE. I

WILLIAM DAY, OF NEW YORK, N. Y.

IMPROVEMENT IN LAMP-SHADE HOLDERS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 1S5,l65, dated December 12, 1876; application filed September 29, 1876.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, WILLIAM DAY, of the city, county, and State of New York, have invented certain new and useful Improvements in Devices for Holding Lam p-Shades to Chimneys; and I declare the following to be a true and exact description of the same, which will enable others to make and use my improved holder.

My invention consists in forming of thin springsteel wire a triangnlarly-shaped holder of a lamp-shade to a chimney.

The ends of the holder are shaped into hooks, which are placed and fit into holes out under the top rim of the shade.

It will be readily understood that the shade with a holder so fitted is placed over the chimney in such a manner that three points on the respective sides of the triangle touch the chimney, and that the holder is held to the said chimney by the spring-power of the steel wire.

In order to more fully describe my invention, I refer to the accompanying drawing, forming a part of this specification and representing a top view of a lamp-shade with the holder attached thereto.

A is a lamp-shade. B is the holder of the shade of a triangular form, the sides a, b, and c of which are bent together at d, e, and f, from where they run parallel to the ends and are there bent into hooks g, h, and i, which fit into the holes j, k, and l cut through the shade under the rim (J.

Having-thus described my invention, I desire to claim- As a new article of manufacture, a lampshade holder, formed of spring-Wire into a triangular shape, with hooks at each angle, substantially as described, and for the purpose set forth.

WILLIAM DAY.

Witnesses I. WILLIAMS, RICHARD GERNER. 

